Visions of the Future

“Reality has become just a subgenre of science fiction, ” says the Pulitzer-Prize winning book critic, Michael Dirda. Artists flesh out what our words will be like, as we integrate rapid transformation into who we are and where we’re headed. Speculative fiction, especially, gives us an opportunity to try on change like a suit of clothes to see how it fits. Here we collect some of these foresights.

We’ve all heard the stories of inevitability: more and more transistors per square centimeter, with momentous leaps to new computing hardware whenever material capacity reaches its limit. While massively parallel, one-to-many molecular […]

From Shirow Masamune, the award-winning creator of Appleseed and Dominion, comes “The Ghost in the Shell”, the breakthrough manga that inspired the internationally acclaimed animated film. An epic dystopian tale […]